SYDNEY: An Australian scientist Friday launched what he called a "reef and beef" study into whether feeding cows seaweed would reduce their flatulent carbon emissions, in a move that could help save t ...More

NEW DELHI: It's 4,000 miles of mountains, seas and valleys from Kathmandu to Copenhagen. With changing climate, it could well become 4,000 miles of sudden storms, flood and climate migrations. Recogni ...More

GENEVA: The world is accelerating towards a climate catastrophe, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Thursday, urging rapid progress in talks to cut emissions and tackle global warming. "Our foot is st ...More

NEW DELHI: India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are expected to nearly triple in the next two decades, but will still remain below the current global average, a government backed report said. ...More

NEW DELHI: The G-20 finance ministers' meet has become the new forum for cornering India and other developing countries into taking climate change commitments. An overview paper distributed by the G-2 ...More

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns, Australia. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has very “poor” chances of survival even from moderate climate change and there may be “complete death” ...More

GENEVA: The world is accelerating towards a climate catastrophe, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Thursday, urging rapid progress in talks to cut emissions and tackle global warming. "Our foot is st ...More

A 155-nation conference in Geneva agreed on a plan to improve climate information to help people cope with ever more droughts, floods, sandstorms and rising sea levels projected this century. ...More

NEW DELHI: India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are expected to nearly triple in the next two decades, but will still remain below the current global average, a government backed report said. ...More

A 155-nation conference in Geneva agreed on a plan to improve climate information to help people cope with ever more droughts, floods, sandstorms and rising sea levels projected this century. The ...More

MELBOURNE: Australia's Great Barrier Reef has very "poor" chances of survival even from moderate climate change and there may be "complete death" of the reef by 2050, a new report has said. The ra ...More

NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission is contemplating holding a special session of the National Development Council (NDC) to discuss climate change. The suggestion came up during the meeting of the f ...More

BERLIN: Climate change is killing valuable coral reef systems, a United Nations-backed report published on Wednesday warned. The report -- entitled "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity" - ...More

PORTLAND, MAINE: The basic makeup of the ocean waters off the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region has fundamentally changed in the past 40 years because of climate change, commercial fishing pressur ...More

KATHMANDU: Climate change threatens to bring food and water shortages to 1.6 billion people in South Asia, with the region's poorest likely to be worst hit, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on We ...More

NEW DELHI: Amid the deadlock between the developed and developing nations on binding greenhouse gas emission cuts, India on Wednesday said the global community might agree on three areas -- forestry f ...More

NEW DELHI: For the first time, a UN agency has endorsed India and developing countries on the climate change front. In its World Economic and Social Survey Report 2009, the UN said rich countrie ...More

BERLIN: Governments can help combat climate change by investing more in natural areas including forests and coral reefs, a European study said on Wednesday. The study pointed out that nations have ...More

Sept. 2: A UN survey has appealed to developing nations to invest in low-emission and high growth strategies, at the same time noting that India had grown has the largest renewable energy industry. T ...More

Sept. 2: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor", a major new ...More